While Silicon Valley startups were raising millions for similar ideas, I was building MEV Shield during nights and weekends after my day job. No funding, no team, just a developer with a problem to\u00a0solve.<\/p>\n
The journey included:<\/p>\n
3 complete rewrites as I learned modern C++ best practicesCountless failed compilations as I mastered template metaprogrammingRealizing that most \u201creal-time\u201d systems are actually using HTTP polling with 500ms intervalsDiscovering that lock-free programming is as much art as\u00a0science<\/p>\n
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